One of these, a
lady, evidently a confirmed invalid, and attired in deep mourning, reclined upon
a sort of couch, or easy chair, set on wheels, with her head supported by
cushions, and her feet resting upon a velvet footstool. ’
Grudgingly, the sergeant shifted aside and allowed her access to the stairs,
grumbling to her retreating back, ‘If I’d me way, missie, I’d send you back to
France where you ought never to have come away from, if you arst me. She was in a very uncritical state that afternoon. You'll tell me next, I dare say, that I recommended you to go and
visit his mother so frequently under the plea of charity; to give her wine, and
provisions, and money; to remove her from the only fit quarters for such people
—the Mint; and to place her in a cottage at Willesden, of which you must needs
pay the rent? Marry, come up! charity should begin at home. ‘Gérard, do not go,’ she cried, breathless. . He would sit in his inner
office and compose conversations with her, penetrating, illuminating, and nearly
conclusive—conversations that never proved to be of the slightest use at all with
her when he met her face to face. Wood, in a whisper, as he filled a rummer to the
brim, not to forget the health of the Chevalier de Saint George—a proposition to
which the lady immediately responded by drinking the toast aloud. “I want to have no distractions. “I want to be your friend,” he said. Hell's curses! that after all my precautions I should be thus entrapped.
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